Excerpt from the puberty booklet Growing Up and Liking It about how to fasten a pad to a belt and about sanitary panties & a funny story from the 1969 booklet.
Flushable (U.S.A.) menstrual-pad ads: Modess, June 1972 - Sani-Flite, Aug. 1971 - Kotex Simplicity (U.K.) and here - early problems with Kotex
Ads, 1920s, featuring Kotex spokeswomen, living and maybe fictional - putting Kotex on the counter to sell it (drawing) - small b&w ad, 1920s - ads, 1921: January, May, July, November - 1920s: skating and small ad - ad, 15 November 1922 - ad, March 1922 - ad, January 1923 - ad on side of train, 1920s - ad, July 1923, with proof - car ad, Nov. 1923 - ad, March 1926 - "Woman's Greatest Hygienic Handicap" ad, 1927

Booklets menstrual hygiene companies made for girls, women and teachers - patent medicine - a list of books and articles about menstruation - videos
Ads for teenagers
Many more PADS, BOOKLETS - See TAMPONS, MENSTRUAL BELTS, CUPS, SPONGES, UNDERPANTS
HOMEPAGE
CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could?
Some MUM site links:
HOMEPAGE |
MUM address & What does MUM mean? |
Email the museum |
Privacy on this site |
Who runs this museum?? |
Amazing women! |
Art of menstruation (and awesome ancient art of menstruation) |
Artists (non-menstrual) |
Asbestos |
Belts |
Bidets |
Birth control and religion |
Birth control drugs, old |
Birth control douche & sponges |
Founder bio |
Bly, Nellie |
MUM board |
Books: menstruation & menopause (& reviews) |
Cats |
Company booklets for girls (mostly) directory |
Contraception and religion |
Contraceptive drugs, old |
Contraceptive douche & sponges |
Costumes |
Menstrual cups |
Cup usage |
Dispensers |
Douches, pain, sprays |
Essay directory |
Examination, gynecological (pelvic) (short history) |
Extraction |
Facts-of-life booklets for girls |
Famous women in menstrual hygiene ads |
FAQ |
Feminine napkin, towel, pad directory |
Founder/director biography |
Gynecological topics by Dr. Soucasaux |
Humor |
Huts |
Links |
Masturbation |
Media coverage of MUM |
Menarche booklets for girls and parents |
Miscellaneous |
Museum future |
Norwegian menstruation exhibit |
Odor |
Olor |
Pad, towel, napkin directory |
Patent medicine |
Poetry directory |
Products, some current |
Puberty booklets for girls and parents|
Religion |
Religión y menstruación |
Your remedies for menstrual discomfort |
Menstrual products safety |
Sanitary napkin, towel, pad directory |
Seguridad de productos para la menstruación |
Science |
Shame |
Slapping, menstrual |
Sponges |
Synchrony |
Tampon directory |
Early tampons |
Teen ads directory |
Tour of the former museum (video) |
Towel, pad, sanitary napkin directory |
Underpants & panties directory |
Videos, films directory |
Words and expressions about menstruation |
Would you stop menstruating if you could? |
What did women do about menstruation in the past? |
Washable pads |
Read 10 years (1996-2006) of articles and Letters to Your MUM on this site.
Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación.

Instructions (2) for fastening & disposing of Kotex pads with advertising (1920s, U.S.A.)

Sheet #1

Women probably found these sheets in boxes of Kotex.

See an American booklet (1928) and a page from a Spanish-language booklet with the
same disposal drawings, both from Kotex.

And see the similar method for fastening the 1941 Modess pads.

See many menstrual pad belts and photos of
how they were worn in a Dutch ad and a Swedish ad.

I thank the donor!



Below: This reduced view shows one side of sheet #1, which has green text & photos.
The other side has brown text & photos
Below: The two sides of the flimsy paper sheet #1, which measures 6 3/4 x 9 3/4" (17.2 x 24.6 cm).
Below: Nurse Ellen Buckland - see the order blank - lived! I had my doubts for years.
But see a suspiciously similar name, also a nurse, same era, different country: Thekla Buckeley
See and read the proffered booklet Personal Hygiene for Women by Dr. Williamson.

NEXT: sheet #2
Excerpt from the puberty booklet Growing Up and Liking It about how to fasten a pad to a belt and about sanitary panties & a funny story from the 1969 booklet.
Ads, 1920s, featuring Kotex spokeswomen, living and maybe fictional - putting Kotex on the counter to sell it (drawing) - small b&w ad, 1920s - ads, 1921: January, May, July, November - 1920s: skating and small ad - ad, 15 November 1922 - ad, March 1922 - ad, January 1923 - ad on side of train, 1920s - ad, July 1923, with proof - car ad, Nov. 1923 - ad, March 1926 - "Woman's Greatest Hygienic Handicap" ad, 1927

Many more
BOOKLETS - See TAMPONS, MENSTRUAL BELTS, PADS, CUPS, SPONGES, UNDERPANTS

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